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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1923
Page
8
Arch Best Oxfords and new Enslin store front progress noted. Vendors tout cabinet gas ranges and Whiz car polish with special weekly prices. Local travel, schooling, and family news reported from Keota West Chester and Washington. Public notices include garden plants for sale and a hospitalizing grafting update.
Mrs A Dickinson announces the annual May festival presented by high school girls on the school lawn Wednesday at 6 45 PM The program features processional May Queen crowning folk dances nations country and court scenes a Wandering Singer tale and a Spring Green Lady number with junior and senior gymnastic performers plus a May Pole dance by junior and senior girls The cast includes Betty Hollingsworth Irma Waymack Lucille Young Christina Breitenbach Owen Summer Autumn Spring and many others
Notices list Pythian Sisters and Knights of Pythias gatherings in May, Moose Lodge social, Rebekah lodge nominations, Hebekehst elections, and table reservations for the May Festival. Also mentions Rural Women’s Club, Standard Bearers, and Missionary Society luncheons with dates and hosts.
West Chester Presbyterian Ladies Auxiliary hosts a Thursday afternoon gathering at the church parlors with a report from delegates and a notice of program changes. The BOK O class hosts a May Festival dinner next Friday evening at 6 30 to 7 30 with special entertainment. Baptist ladies invite mothers and daughters to a Friday May 15 banquet with a five cent plate price and a call to borrow a mother or daughter if needed.
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